Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Ideas

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted